Harbinger of Madness and Nightmares.Annaleigh Thaumas has lived a sheltered life at Highmoor, a manor by the sea, with her sisters, their father, and stepmother. She’s worn the black and gray of mourning so long she’s become accustomed to the stares, the whispers, the talk of accidents, of suicide, of a curse placed by the gods on the Thaumas sisters. Kosamaras - Versia's half-sister, not wholly a goddess but an immortal.Versia - "House of Seven Moons" - Queen of the night.Morella - Their very young step-mother (only been married for about 4 months)įisher - Hanna's Son and apprentice to the Light-keeper Verity - age 6, their Mother died right after her birth.Eulalie - Died from a fall off of a cliff.Elizabeth - Found floating in the bathtub.Octavia - Died from a fall off of a ladder in the library." An eerie, lovely Twelve Dancing Princesses retelling full of ghosts and gods and a fascinating waterfront world and I'm reading it from behind my fingers."-Melissa Albert, New York Times bestselling author of The Hazel Wood House of Salt and Sorrows is a spellbinding novel filled with magic and the rustle of gossamer skirts down long, dark hallways. When Annaleigh's involvement with a mysterious stranger who has secrets of his own intensifies, it's a race to unravel the darkness that has fallen over her family-before it claims her next. Because who-or what-are they really dancing with? The girls have been sneaking out every night to attend glittering balls, dancing until dawn in silk gowns and shimmering slippers, and Annaleigh isn't sure whether to try to stop them or to join their forbidden trysts. Each death was more tragic than the last-the plague, a plummeting fall, a drowning, a slippery plunge-and there are whispers throughout the surrounding villages that the family is cursed by the gods.ĭisturbed by a series of ghostly visions, Annaleigh becomes increasingly suspicious that her sister's deaths were no accidents. Once there were twelve, but loneliness fills the grand halls now that four of the girls' lives have been cut short. In a manor by the sea, twelve sisters are cursed.Īnnaleigh lives a sheltered life at Highmoor with her sisters and their father and stepmother.
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